Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1975–76

The India national cricket team toured New Zealand from 15 January to 22 February 1976 and played a three-match Test series against New Zealand. The series was drawn 1–1.

Indian cricket team in New Zealand in 1975–76
	India	New Zealand
Dates	15 January – 22 February 1976
Captains	Sunil Gavaskar	Glenn Turner
Test series
Result	3-match series drawn 1–1
Most runs	Sunil Gavaskar (266)	Bevan Congdon (218)
Most wickets	E. A. S. Prasanna (11) B. S. Chandrasekhar (11)	Richard Hadlee (12)

Tour matches

Three-day: Central Districts v Indians

15–17 January 1976 Scorecard

Central Districts	v	Indians
152 (57.7 overs) Jock Edwards 43 EAS Prasanna 5/57 (20.7 overs)		259 (81.6 overs) Mohinder Amarnath 83 David O'Sullivan 3/65 (26 overs)
214 (76 overs) Mike Shrimpton 55 EAS Prasanna 5/87 (30 overs)		108/4 (34.7 overs) Parthasarathy Sharma 62* David O'Sullivan 2/29 (15 overs)

Indians won by 6 wickets McLean Park, Napier Umpires: Dennis Copps and H Stratford

• Central Districts won the toss and elected to bat.

One-day: Wellington v Indians

19 January 1976 Scorecard

Indians 160 (34.7 overs)	v	Wellington 162/1 (32.2 overs)
Dilip Vengsarkar 35 Jonathan Ross 3/31 (7 overs)		John Morrison 58* Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 1/22 (7 overs)

Wellington won by 9 wickets Basin Reserve, Wellington Umpires: Trevor Martin and Robert Monteith

• Indians won the toss and elected to bat.

Three-day: Northern Districts v Indians

20–22 January 1976 Scorecard

Northern Districts	v	Indians
305/7 dec. (77.7 overs) Madan Lal 101* Bob Cunis 3/68 (19 overs)		240/6 dec. (75 overs) Andrew Roberts 104* Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 2/57 (27 overs)
199 (41.7 overs) Surinder Amarnath 59 Cliff Dickeson 4/80 (13.7overs)		123 (38.1 overs) Andrew Roberts 36 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 4/43 (15 overs)

Indians won by 141 runs Seddon Park, Hamilton Umpires: Fred Goodall and John Hastie

• Indians won the toss and elected to bat.

Three-day: Otago v Indians

31 January–2 February 1976 Scorecard

Indians	v	Otago
304/5d (96 overs) Dilip Vengsarkar 130 Brian McKechnie 3/64 (22 overs)		252/9d (79 overs) Glenn Turner 121* Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan 5/87 (31 overs)
144 (37.6 overs) Parthasarathy Sharma 45 Peter Petherick 6/36 (10.6 overs)		116/2 (32.4 overs) Henry Sampson 57 Bishan Singh Bedi 2/38 (10.4 overs)

Match drawn Carisbrook, Dunedin Umpires: Eric Dempster and Ernest Wainscott

• Indians won the toss and elected to bat.

Test Matches

1st Test

24–28 January 1976 Scorecard

New Zealand	v	India
266 (87 overs) Bevan Congdon 54 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 6/94 (30 overs)		414 (121.7 overs) Surinder Amarnath 124 Bevan Congdon 5/65 (26.7 overs)
215 (70.2 overs) John Parker 70 Erapalli Prasanna 8/76 (23 overs)		71/2 (14.2 overs) Sunil Gavaskar 35 Hedley Howarth 2/15 (5.2 overs)

India won by 8 wickets Eden Park, Auckland Umpires: Dennis Copps (NZ) and Robert Monteith (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.

2nd Test

5–10 February 1976 Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
270 (60.6 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 83 Richard Collinge 6/63 (16.6 overs)		403 (132.1 overs) Glenn Turner 117 Madan Lal 5/134 (43 overs)
255/6 (79 overs) Gundappa Viswanath 79 Andy Roberts 1/12 (5 overs)

Match drawn Lancaster Park, Christchurch Umpires: Dennis Copps (NZ) and Ralph Gardiner (NZ)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

3rd Test

13–17 February 1976 Scorecard

India	v	New Zealand
220 (73.7 overs) Brijesh Patel 81 Richard Hadlee 4/35 (14 overs)		334 (113.7 overs) Mark Burgess 95 Bhagwat Chandrasekhar 3/55 (22.5 overs)
81 (26.3 overs) Surinder Amarnath 27 Richard Hadlee 7/23 (8.3 overs)

New Zealand won by an innings and 33 runs Basin Reserve, Wellington Umpires: Ralph Gardiner (NZ) and Robert Monteith (NZ)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.

ODI series

1st ODI

21 February 1976 Scorecard

India 154 (35 overs)	v	New Zealand 155/1 (30.3 overs)
Gundappa Viswanath 56 (88) Richard Collinge 5/23 (7 overs)		Glenn Turner 63* (121) Bishan Singh Bedi 1/24 (7 overs)

New Zealand won by 9 wickets Lancaster Park, Christchurch Umpires: Eric Dempster (NZ) and Mansfield Rangi (NZ) Player of the match: Richard Collinge (NZ)

• India won the toss and elected to bat.
• Parthasarathy Sharma, Dilip Vengsarkar and Syed Kirmani (all Ind), and Jock Edwards (NZ) made their ODI debuts.

2nd ODI

22 February 1976 Scorecard

New Zealand 236/8 (35 overs)	v	India 156 (31.6 overs)
Glenn Turner 52 (63) B. S. Chandrasekhar 3/36 (7 overs)		Brijesh Patel 44 (51) Dayle Hadlee 2/18 (7 overs)

New Zealand won by 80 runs Eden Park, Auckland Umpires: Ralph Gardiner (NZ) and John Hastie (NZ) Player of the match: Ken Wadsworth (NZ)

• New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat.
• Sudhakar Rao, Pochiah Krishnamurthy and B. S. Chandrasekhar (all Ind) made their ODI debuts.

External links

• Tour home at ESPNcricinfo
• India to New Zealand & West Indies 1975-76 at test-cricket-tours.co.uk
• India in New Zealand and West Indies 1975/76 at CricketArchive (subscription required)